Danielle McGuire, 15, filed suit December 18 in a circuit court in St. Louis, Missouri, charging Timberlake with false imprisonment of a minor and intentional infliction of emotional distress, according to her lawyer, John Wallach. McGuire also charges a security guard with assault and battery in the suit, which stems from an alleged incident at a St. Louis hotel where the band was staying after a November 19 concert.
McGuire says that after the show, she and dozens of fans waited inside the lobby of the Chase Park Plaza hotel. When *NSYNC arrived, each group member except for Timberlake talked with members of the crowd before entering elevators to go to their rooms, Wallach said.
After being snubbed by Timberlake, McGuire yelled out, "I like JC better anyway, he's cuter," referring to group member Joshua "JC" Chasez. Wallach said that a security guard for the group emerged from an elevator and asked McGuire if she was the one who made the comment. When she said she was, the security guard told her to come with him, there was some physical contact, and the two went upstairs, Wallach said.
McGuire asked if she could tell her mother, but the guard refused to let her, Wallach said. When they got upstairs, Timberlake backed McGuire against a wall and began berating her for what she said, the suit alleges.
"[McGuire] said he went on and on, and wouldn't stop," Wallach said. "He was right in her face, saying things over and over again."
In the meantime, Wallach said, a friend of McGuire's went to alert her mother, who had brought the girls to the hotel. Security wouldn't let McGuire's mother upstairs, but allowed a family friend, KSDK news anchor Randy Jackson, to go get her.
Jackson told Wallach that when he got upstairs, Timberlake was yelling at McGuire. When Timberlake saw the newsman, he limped off, saying that his leg hurt, Wallach alleges.
"We tried to resolve this quietly," Wallach said. "But *NSYNC's lawyer told me they weren't interested."
A jury will determine damages in the suit if and when it goes to court.
*NSYNC's lawyer and record label did not return phone calls.
The suit also names the other members of *NSYNC as a partnership, as well as the group's management company and Chase Park Plaza Limited Partnership. Wallach said that the group and management company are attached to the suit because they may be the employers of the security guards.
The suit alleges that the hotel allowed the group and its management to take control of the lobby and members of the public.
Hotel lawyers were unavailable at press time.
Justin did not "verbally abuse" that girl. Jive released a statement, and what happend is Justin was signing autographs, and this girl thats now sueing him shoved a piece of paper in his face and demanded that he sign it. He replied "Wait a minute, let me finish signing these (the people he was signing for at the moment) and then i'll sign yours." She got pissed, and said "Jc deserves your little slut more than you do" (or something like this). There are witnesses that this has happend, this angered Justin, so he asked a bodygaurd to take her and her mother in the hotel lobby, Justin soon followed, and he simply said "I would be glad to sign the autograph for you, but you have to know that im not here just for you, im here for all the fans. So wait your turn and stop acting like a brat."